Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.

But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.